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Labor's climate policy: back in the game but missing detail

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageLabor has promised 50% of electricity will come from renewable sources by 2050, but has left the detail for after the election.Wind turbine image from www.shutterstock.com

Labor has announced the climate policy it will take to the federal election, including a return to carbon pricing under an emissions trading scheme.

The detailed policy includes...

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The arguments that carried Australia’s 1996 gun law reforms

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
image'Guns don’t kill people, (bad and mad) people kill people' ... oh really?Alan Moir

Former Prime Minister John Howard and all Australia’s states and territories united to introduce sweeping gun law reforms just 12 days after the then world’s worst civilian firearm massacre. When they did so, they acted on a platform of policy...

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Whose line is it anyway? The murderer, his mother, and the ghost writers

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

This is a story about stories. Who writes them. Who owns them and what happens when the two things get muddled. It’s a story about true stories, life stories, stories written by amateurs and professionals. It sounds a warning to the growing number of readers who aspire to publish their own memoirs, and those who write the lives of others.

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  2. The way Australia taxes housing is manifestly unfair
  3. Where is the balance and credibility in our federal government's arts policy?
  4. Will Habitat III defend the human right to the city?
  5. Partnering with scientists boosts school students' and teachers' confidence in science
  6. PNG court decision forces Australia to act on Manus Island detainees
  7. Hidden housemates: the termites that eat our homes
  8. How the influence of trade unions on the Labor Party is overestimated
  9. Why wooing women is the way forward for trade unions
  10. Australia's gun laws save lives – but are we now going backwards?
  11. A cheat sheet for reading the federal budget
  12. The 'citizen budgets' of Africa make governments more transparent
  13. Great Barrier Reef bleaching stats are bad enough without media misreporting
  14. Disease evolution: our long history of fighting viruses
  15. From trauma to tourism and back again: Port Arthur's history of 'dark tourism'
  16. Up close and personal: virtual reality can be an instrument for social change
  17. Youth unemployment: local communities essential for helping young people find work
  18. Autism diagnostic standards fall short of the mark
  19. Labor unveils phased emissions trading scheme
  20. Death in offshore detention: predictable and preventable
  21. PNG asylum seeker judgment doesn't bind Australia: Dutton
  22. Unexplained lower back pain? It could be ankylosing spondylitis
  23. Submarines decision ultimately shows the merits of partisan debate on defence
  24. Explainer: the largest language spoken exclusively in Australia – Kriol
  25. How to make sure Australia's submarines pay for themselves
  26. French firm DCNS wins $50 billion submarine contract
  27. French company DCNS wins race to build Australia's next submarine fleet: experts respond
  28. New climate science centre doesn't make up for CSIRO cuts: experts
  29. Why the French submarine won the bid to replace the Collins-class
  30. Shorten can wedge Turnbull on climate
  31. The off-topic Conversation #90
  32. Experts are people too: why we should question the independence of consultants and think tanks
  33. Five budget myths that refuse to die
  34. Budget explainer: why is Australia's wage growth so sluggish?
  35. Buy, rent, or do both: the perversion of negative gearing
  36. Rising carbon dioxide is greening the Earth - but it's not all good news
  37. Here’s how green infrastructure can easily be added to the urban planning toolkit
  38. Ideas for Australia: To really reform the federation, you must build strong bipartisan support
  39. Ideas for Australia: Can our federalism feuds be fixed with a look to overseas?
  40. In Conversation: Mark Scott on his decade in charge of the ABC
  41. High fat and sugar diets stop us from feeling full
  42. Lost treasures and how to find them
  43. Why are we still searching for the Loch Ness monster?
  44. Data collected about student behaviour doesn't help improve teaching or learning
  45. Negative gearing windbacks could deliver $5.3bn a year: Grattan
  46. Deloitte projects $129 billion four-year cumulative deficit, proclaims a revenue problem
  47. Australia still doesn't see a cyber attack as the menace our allies fear
  48. On windmills and warships
  49. Will tourism transform the way Australians remember the Vietnam War?
  50. 'It makes one feel and realise what a dreadful thing war is' – a nurse's story

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